The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute

Joshua Neunuebel, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain SciencesUniversity of Delaware Decoding Mouse Ultrasonic Communication During Social Behavior Communication plays an integral role in human social dynamics, and a myriad of neurodevelopmental disorders are characterized by abnormal social communication. Because of their genetic tractability, mice are emerging as an important model system for studying […]

Jan Engelmann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley The sense of fairness in chimpanzees and children It is often argued that the sense of fairness consists in an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Standard accounts claim that chimpanzees react negatively to allocations in which they receive less than others, while children, from around […]

Terrence R. Stanford, Ph.D.Professor, Translational NeuroscienceWake Forest University School of Medicine Imposing urgency to generate insights into the neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making and motor choice One of the most ubiquitous choices we make is that of where to look next.  At 3-5 saccadic eye movements every second, the primate oculomotor system provides a unique […]